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Not so long ago, they would roar out on a motorcycle trip to Yellowstone, or ride a helicopter down the Colorado River. In 2007, Bob put half the money down on a new pickup and paid cash for a new motorcycle.
Losing their jobs changed everything for the couple from Prior Lake. Bob now drives a school bus for $13 an hour, one-third what he earned when he designed tools to test hard drives for Seagate. Liz, who works in IT, has found new jobs, but she makes less than she did in 2008.
"We don't go out. We don't travel," she said. "We're figuring out if I can even retire."
Millions of Americans have moved on from the recession with careers and finances mostly intact, but large groups have fallen behind, perhaps for good. The difference is whether they were able to hang on to their jobs.
Those who remained employed through the downturn endured anxious moments, lost value in their homes and may have forgone pay raises. But people who were laid off gave up months or years of earnings, lost homes, raided 401(k)s, went into debt, and now more often than not must take jobs for significantly less pay.
Even as the economy has added jobs and unemployment has fallen below 7 percent, today's unemployed are more likely than at any time since the Great Depression to stay that way for a prolonged period and far more likely to end up in part-time jobs. At last check, 38,400 Minnesotans and more than 4 million people across the country had been out of work for more than six months, not counting the millions who have given up looking.
"Many of them are still paying the price by having a job that's not as good, or only a part-time job, or maybe not a job at all," said Henry Farber, a Princeton economist who studies displaced workers. "The labor market never really recovered from the Great Recession."
If and when job-seekers do find work, a majority make less money. A third suffer a 20 percent pay cut or worse, according to research by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
They are ushered into a new life with lesser prospects and no clear path to reclaim what they lost.
"When you run out of unemployment, you're desperate," said Liz McLean, 60, who grew up just north of Duluth. "If someone hasn't been laid off, they don't really understand this whole thing."
A downward spiral of wages
About a quarter of American workers say they lost a job during the recession, according to a 2013 survey by researchers at Rutgers University.
The number of workers unemployed long-term — six months or longer — shot up during the downturn from 1.4 million in early 2008 to 6.7 million in early 2010, and remains historically very high at 4.1 million.
More than half of those who were laid off and eventually found a new job are earning less, the analysis at Rutgers showed.
"For the unemployed, especially the long-term unemployed, they get caught in that vicious downward spiral of wage and salary," said Carl Van Horn, director of the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers.
A worker's value to a new company will almost always be less than at one where they've worked for several years, Van Horn said. They may not have up-to-date skills, and companies have the freedom to bid down wages.
"This is a buyer's market, and that buyer's market has been going on for almost five years now," he said.
Newly unemployed workers usually come out swinging, expecting to equal the wages they lost and shunning lower-paid work. Six months later, he said, that impulse is beaten out of most folks.
"It completely evaporates after they exhaust their unemployment insurance," he said.
Diminished prospects
The McLeans met at a house party in Duluth, got married and moved to the Twin Cities in 1974, when their oldest son was an infant.
Bob had a two-year degree in mechanical design and landed a job at what is now Seagate Technology, where he worked for 27 years. Once the couple's three boys were old enough, Liz earned a couple of two-year computer degrees for herself and landed a job she loved, working on the IT help desk at Fabcon, a concrete company in St. Paul.
Bob, 65, lost his job first, in January 2009. It wasn't a huge surprise — he was among the oldest in his department, he said. He took a year of severance, went to the state's dislocated worker program, rewrote his résumé, took classes in computer-assisted design programs and started looking for jobs.
A month later, Liz lost her job. She worked stints on the IT help desk at Pella Corp. and Mystic Lake Casino. Now she works for a company that sells books to colleges. It's interesting work in a good department, but then, "every job since I got laid off at that other place has been lower in pay," she said.
Bob McLean worked a three-month contract at another manufacturer, which wasn't renewed. Now he drives a school bus in Chaska. The job starts early and ends late. Bob wishes it paid more, but he gets a kick out of the slow-moving kindergartners with their giant backpacks.
"They're harmless, but it's hard to control them on a bus," he said.
Wage stagnation
There's a good reason people who lose their jobs take lower-paid positions: That's what's available.
The median hourly wage in the United States fell 2.8 percent from 2009 to 2012 after factoring in inflation, according to analysis by the National Employment Law Project. Some 43 percent of all U.S. job growth in the recovery years of 2011 and 2012 was in the generally low-wage categories of food services, retail and temp agencies.
This is not unusual after a recession, according to research by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, but it's also a long-term trend.
The economy has for decades been disproportionately shedding middle-skill jobs that command middle-income wages, researchers at Duke University and the University of British Columbia have shown. The most recent decade was the worst of three bad ones in a row for the middle class. Between 2000 and 2011, the economy shed 11 percent of its middle-skill jobs, according to the researchers' analysis, while low-level employment increased 16 percent.
"We're just seeing more of what we've been seeing over the last 20 years, but it accelerated over the recovery," said Mike Evangelist, an analyst for the National Employment Law Project. "The real net job growth has been in these lower-wage occupations, in retail and food services, so I think those jobs are indicative of what's available."
That is part of the reason why people like Bob McLean, who used to earn good money, are earning less. And it helps explain why one in six people in the Twin Cities surveyed by Country Financial in 2013 said they will never recover from the recession.
A tactical shift
Bruce Hanson is more optimistic than that, but he understands the feeling.
"In our culture, your job is pretty much your personality — if you don't have one, you're not a valuable person in the world," Hanson said, describing what he believes is a widespread view.
He was IT director for Minnesota Wire and Cable in St. Paul. It was a good job, but the company restructured in 2011 and said he could either take a $40,000 per-year pay cut or a severance package. He took the severance and started applying for jobs. Nothing happened. He raided his 401(k) to make house payments.
"I was pretty well down to my last few dollars," he said. "Had to take a job that paid about a quarter of what I'd been making before to just make ends meet."
Then he made a tactical adjustment and offered to work a trial period for a company he liked, managing its data center. He proved himself, got hired full time and has been working there almost two years.
He still thinks and talks a lot about the job search, though. He's been facilitating Twin Cities job transition groups since 1999 — through three of his own layoffs — and compiled a go-to comprehensive list of job transition groups around the metro.
Too often when people get a phone number to call or a contact to e-mail, they don't follow up, Hanson said. They might be scared, afraid of rejection, or not ready to take lower-paid work.
"They say they're going to call, but a lot of times they don't," he said.
Part-time jobs and wage cuts
This leads to more trouble because the longer people are out of work, the less they are likely to make when they find a job.
People lose earning power after a layoff because they can't find full-time work, a problem that's been especially pronounced in this recovery, said Farber, the economist at Princeton.
In every recession since 1980, 12 or 13 percent of people who lost full-time jobs ended up in part-time work. The Great Recession was different, with the share of people ending up in part-time jobs rising to 20 percent.
"The earnings losses are huge, but mostly because the people can't find full-time work," Farber said.
Meanwhile, many companies are still cutting wages. During and after recessions, employers try to cut costs without hurting employee morale too much, so they freeze wages, a phenomenon economists at the San Francisco Fed call "pent-up wage cuts."
"The fraction of individuals receiving no change in their wage has been larger in this recession than in past recessions," Daly said.
These wage freezes cut into people's standard of living over time, have been especially severe in this recovery, and have held on longer because inflation is so low, she said.
"Employers traditionally let inflation erode the value of the real wage in downturns, but in a low-inflation environment that's less possible," said Mary Daly, an economist at the San Francisco Fed.
A harsh reality
Keith Cushman's workload had been waning and a manager from Philadelphia was in the office, which he did not take as a good sign. She said hello as she whisked by his cubicle.
"I knew something was going to happen," he said. "I was hoping it wasn't going to be me."
Fifteen minutes later she called Cushman into a conference room.
It was the end of 2009, and Cushman, then the father of two, had been writing policies and procedures for Wells Fargo Auto Finance. The last time he had been laid off he found a job right away. This time, it took almost two years. He studied accounting, hoping to switch careers, but he needed work badly so he took a temp job processing mortgages for Wells Fargo.
"I was down to my last three weeks of unemployment when I got a job," he said.
The mortgage market has been slow to recover since the downturn, and he lost the new job in 2013.
Cushman and his wife now have four children, including twin sons born in 2012, and they live in Cologne. His wife used to work, but now she takes care of the little boys. He applies for jobs, helps her make breakfast, tries to connect with people on the phone, attends two networking groups a week, and is hoping to take a CPA exam in the spring.
He feels like the job market is improving — better jobs are available, and job clubs he goes to are shrinking. But everything depends on him finding the right job, one that pays "what he needs to live" and offers good health insurance. So far he hasn't found it.
"That reality seems to be a little harsher than I thought it was going to be," Cushman said. "Until I get a job, I won't know how harsh it is."


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The WSJ is reporting that many banks are thinking about creating a limit on how much you can spend on your debit card. For example, banks like JP Morgan Chase & Co are thinking about setting a $100 maximum per transaction.
Why the hell would they do this? Well, the new debit card rules, known as the Durbin Amendment, which will take effect in July are going to make debit-cards extremely unprofitable for the banks. The new rules basically reduce the fees associated with debit card usage, which is good for small businesses, but terrible for the banking industry. In fact, with the new rules in effect, the entire industry could lose $15.2 billion a year in revenue.
And we all know Banks don't want to lose money! So their solution is to limit your usage of debit cards (with that proposed maximum) to move you over to the more profitable credit and charge card business. A cunning don't-spend-your-money-spend-ours-and-rack-up-debt move. Other ideas they're tossing around right now is to limit the number of debit card purchases one can make in a month, charge a fee to the consumer for each debit card transaction and break down debit-card services into different parts and charging merchants separately.
If this does really happen, it's going to suck. All I ever really use is my debit card. Sure, a lot of those purchases are under $100 but I don't want to be told how I can or cannot spend my money. [WSJ]
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Royal Cortissoz, photograph by Peter A. Juley & Son, New York, after a 1939 painting by Louis Betts. Dumbarton Oaks Archives (AR.PH.BL.Misc.053).
Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss, the founders of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, were noted collectors. Little known, however, among their varied collections are 293 photographs of their friends and diplomatic acquaintances. These photographs are conserved in the Dumbarton Oaks Archives and include studio photographs, photogravures, and images made from paintings and drawings of the sitters. Among the photographers represented in this collection are Edward Weston (1886–1958), Pirie MacDonald (1867–1942), and Alice Boughton (1866–1943). Among the notable sitters are King Gustaf V of Sweden (1858–1950), Ignacy Jan Paderewsky (1860–1941), and Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971).
Although the circumstances and dates of the Blisses' acquisition of these photographs are typically unknown, occasionally there is documentation that provides the context. This is true of the photograph of Royal Cortissoz (1869–1948), the American art critic and art editor for the New York Herald Tribune (1891–1948). The photograph that he sent the Blisses was made from the artist Louis Betts's painting of Cortissoz. This 1939 oil painting had been commissioned by the New York City Century Association, where Cortissoz was president between 1933 and 1944. The photograph's mat board is inscribed: "To Mildred and Robert Bliss, with love from their ever devoted friend, Royal Cortissoz, January 1940." In a letter to Mildred Bliss, dated January 5, 1940, Cortissoz wrote:
Carissimissima Mildredinella Mia, I'm glad you care to have a photograph of my portrait and am sending it to you by this mail. Everybody at the club seems to think well of it. I have a curious feeling as of one canonized when I see the thing set above the mantelpiece in the west room. Since you will give haven to the photograph, I gather that you think it is faithful. If it pleased you in the reproduction it may please you even more in the better version, and that makes me happy.
The Dumbarton Oaks Archives is presently processing and re-housing this collection. Digital scans will be made of each photograph.The following is a sampling of other photographs in this collection.


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The previous mark: 10, by Tony Conigliaro (1966) and Kevin Youkilis (2008).
You can't do it without guys getting on. I can't do it on my own. That's just one of those stats that they find that makes you look good because who would have ever thought that?Bay joins Jimmy Bannon (1894), Bob Meusel (1925), Hank Greenberg (1933), Leon Durham (1984) and Chili Davis (1993) with 11 straight men-on dongs. ... The major league record is 12, set by Hank Aaron (1970) and Ken Griffey Jr. (1999).
Bay joked that he fouled out to first in the eighth inning because there were no runners on base.
Date Opponent HomerBay has hit 13 home runs, second only to Carlos Pena (14) in the American League. Adrian Gonzalez and Raul Ibanez lead the NL with 15; Albert Pujols has hit 14.
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John Smoltz started for Greenville (A) last night (box/pbp). He pitched three scoreless innings (29 pitches), allowing one hit and striking out two. Smoltz said he threw at about 85% and his fastball was clocked at 92.
In mop-up duty for Pawtucket last night, reliever Javier Lopez allowed four earned runs on four hits and five walks in two-thirds of an inning in the PawSox' 14-1 loss to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
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(I borrowed a friend's teen daughter to review the sequel to Alison Goodman's popular fantasy novel, Eon. Here is Keyra Howery's report for GeekMom:)
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Eona, the second and last book in the series of Eon, will compel you to read more than just one chapter. As with Goodman's first book Eon, this second book is fast paced and filled with plenty of excitement that will have you clinging to your seat.
In the first book of the series, Eon is in training to become one of twelve "Dragoneyes." But Eon has a secret — he is really a sixteen year old girl. Eon has had to hide her identity, for females are forbidden to become Dragoneyes. The Dragoneyes help control the weather, and have influence with the government. In the final ceremony of choosing the new Dragoneye, Eon is chosen by the mirror dragon, a dragon that has been missing for five hundred years.
The second book opens after Eon reveals that she is really Eona. Faced with more troubles ahead, and unable to control her power, how will she prevail? And, being one of the two Dragoneyes left, she must rescue Lord Ido, who is the other Dragoneye. Ido's dragon is the dragon of ambition, and indeed Ido's ambitions have gotten him in a jam. He is in the clutches of Lord Sethon, who is the evil brother of the previous Emperor. But, even if she can rescue Lord Ido from Sethon's prison, will she be able to convince him to teach her the way of the Dragoneye? With most of the Dragoneyes gone, the weather is out of control. Eona must not just survive Sethon's army, but also very likely storms.
Eona starts out kind of slow, but gets progressively more riveting as it goes along. It also has more humor and romance than the first book. Eona isn't accustom to being on horseback, so when the prince tells her shell get use to riding in a couple days, she spits out, "A few more day and I'll be dead of arse pain." Then she promptly clamps her hand over her mouth in embarrassment. As for the romance, you'll just have to read the book.
Goodman is an expert at writing descriptions that will have your mouth watering, and dialogue that will have you wanting to jump into the book yourself. Eona will quench your hunger for strong characters like Kygo, the previous emperor's son, a skilled swordsman who has many important decisions ahead, including whether to save Lord Ido or overthrow his brother Sethon to regain the thrown. Or Lady Dele, a contraire, a gift to the emperor and close friend of Eona.
Like Eon, Eona is a must read for fantasy lovers. It will thrill you, and make you sorry to see it end.
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A Russian giant gets an early Christmas present in Switzerland.
"Merry Christmas, Nikolai Valuev. The judges in Switzerland have a gift for you. Valuev retained his WBA title on scores of 116-112, 115-114, and 114-114, giving him a majority decision win over 46-year old Evander Holyfield in an atrocious fight that joins the running for Worst Fight of 2008." [Bad Left Hook]


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Although the Avalanche portrayed the Wednesday acquisition of Swiss goalie Reto Berra from Calgary as "insurance," it's safe to say that Colorado wouldn't have been bothered if Jean-Sebastien Giguere interpreted it as a challenge to return to
his strong early-season form as Semyon Varlamov's backup.
Giguere played well in his second start since the Olympic break Thursday night, making 35 saves, and the Avalanche got a goal from defenseman Andre Benoit at 4:28 of overtime to claim a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena.
Matt Duchene had a goal and an assist, P.A. Parenteau had the other Colorado goal in regulation, and rookie Nathan MacKinnon's consecutive-game point streak reached 13 when he made the setup pass for an assist on Benoit's game-ending goal. MacKinnon surpassed Wayne Gretzky for the longest NHL point streak by an 18-year-old, and it came on the play that nudged Colorado's latest winning streak to four games.
"This doesn't change anything for me," said Giguere. "My only job is to go in there and try to give Varly a good rest and make sure I try to leave a good impression for the coach for the next game."
That mission was accomplished Thursday night.
"It's what I said when I met him," Avalanche coach Patrick Roy said. "I said, 'You're allowed to change our plans.' … If Jiggy plays like he did tonight, it helps his cause, for sure."
Berra didn't join the Avalanche in Detroit, and there's a chance immigration issues will additionally delay his arrival in Denver.
So for at least one more night, Giguere was the only backup option as Roy gave Varlamov a game off at the approach of Saturday afternoon's showdown with the St. Louis Blues at the Pepsi Center.
Colorado improved to 41-17-5, and because both St. Louis and Chicago won Thursday, the Avs remained three points behind the Blues and one behind the Blackhawks in the Central Division.
"It's pretty cool that we could win like that," said MacKinnon. "Wings-Avs, I'm not sure there is a better rivalry in hockey, and it's exciting for our team. To be part of the overtime is pretty cool and, yeah, for the points streak, it's definitely nice as well to continue it."
MacKinnon was a toddler in the most acrimonious days of the Colorado-Detroit rivalry. But after a guy has just surpassed Wayne Gretzky to claim a slice of hockey history, it would be picky to point that out.
The Red Wings honored Nick Lidstrom, the seven-time winner of the Norris Trophy, and retired his jersey No. 5. The pregame ceremony ran longer than expected, and the game didn't start until 8:28 p.m. EST.
By the way, Saturday will be the 10th anniversary of then-Canucks winger Todd Bertuzzi's attack on Colorado forward Steve Moore in Vancouver. Bertuzzi, 39, now in his second stint with the Red Wings, on Thursday played his 519th NHL game since that night.
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Denver International Airport (credit: CBS)
DENVER (AP) — Operations are almost back to normal at Denver International Airport following Hurricane Sandy.
With all three major airports serving the New York area back open, fewer than 20 flights were canceled in Denver on Thursday.
Hurricane Sandy canceled thousands of flights across the country. Airlines positioned planes at airports around the country, including Denver's, to escape the storm and to help resume flights after the reopening of East Coast airports.
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I saw a video of how to split a pill (tablet form). Place the pill on a hard, flat surface. Then place an index finger of each hand on either side of the score and press down. The pill snaps cleanly at the score. Just that simple. No tools required. I discovered that it works with certain pills even when the pill is not scored (like doggie's pain pills). I wish I can find the video again, but I haven't been succesful. If you find the video, please drop me the link. Thanks in advance.
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This thing gets you cooking over an open flame in minutes with no mess. Camping. Tailgate partying. Roughing it during a power outtage. Or just visiting at grandma's. Not readily available in Texas yet (we'll have to mail order). So there you go. Grab one and get to grillin' ... then share with us how it turned out. Thanks.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Doggie is pretty exhausted and sleeps most of the time (thank goodness). I fed him his dinner, a bland canned food that the vet sent, and he ate just fine. Then he wanted to play so he was active for a while (moving around and not lying down for long), then he was ready for potty. Now he's sleeping again, thank goodness.
Vet gave us the stuff retrieved from his stomach. It stinks. Gumby wants to keep it for show and tell. I've washed it in Tide. I've washed it in dish detergent. I've let it sit out in the sun in our 100 degree heat today in hopes that UV kills stuff. Right now it's in a plastic bag with a bunch of baking soda. Other ideas: washing it in tomato juice since they use that for skunk stink, washing it in hydrogen peroxide to kill stuff, spray the hell out of it with Lysol ... whatever chemical activity is going on with the stuff, I want to stop it.
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Sunday, June 21, 2009
96 degrees Fahrenheit (36 deg. Celsius)
38% humidity
101 deg. F heat index
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crazy week
Friday, June 19, 2009
What a week. Wednesday p.m. I was at work and got a call from home. The air conditioner is not working. One of the toilets is not working. I go home and try to check on both. A friend guided me on the air conditioner and got it to limp along (the fan on the outside unit needs a little help to get it going). That same night I changed out a tire because apparently my car is out of alignment and it's wearing out the inside edge of my tire. It's almost bald there. Not wanting to risk a blowout as I drive, I change out the tire with my spare.
Thursday a.m. the A/C is not working again (since I was sleeping, I wasn't out there to give the fan a little help). The dog threw up. So I go clean that up. Plus it's the day to get the trash together and put it out. We thought our friend was coming to fix the A/C. I go to work, leaving gumby to deal with all that. By midday the dog had thrown up again. He continued to throw up as the day wore on. Gumby was constantly cleaning up. Our friend did eventually come and fix the A/C late that evening and diagnosed the toilet. I get home and I bathe the dog. He threw up 4 or 5 more times before we went to bed around 3 a.m., then again some time in the middle of the night, then again before 7 a.m., waking me up.
Gumby took him to the vet. I went to work. The dog was near death by the time he got to the vet. He was all dehydrated and his electrolytes were all out of whack. The vet re-scheduled a bunch of appointments and worked on saving him. He had eaten his bed over weeks if not months and that stuff was stuck in his stomach, which is now maybe three times larger than normal (but you can't tell by just looking at him). After giving him I-V treatment and stabilizing him, they were able to do surgery and remove that gunk from his stomach. They'll keep him over the weekend. My fault for not having prevented the dog from eating large amounts of that stuff; I thought it was all passing through.
Workwise, I've had maybe 4 or 5 hours to work on what I needed to work on. I've been stuck in meetings, with Thursday and Friday being day-long meetings. I've taken the work home, and hope to have the stamina to work on it this weekend.
My car still needs an alignment. Gumby can take it to the shop for me on Monday; I just don't know how the dollars are going to work out. I still need to straighten up the house. I have cleaned the crate yesterday, but would like to go back and do a more thorough disinfecting. I'm thinking I'll clean it with the same stuff recommended for cleaning refrigerators.
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gate results
Sunday, June 14, 2009
The J-B Weld seems to be holding for now. This was the second application. On the first application, the J-B Weld pulled the surface treatment off the brick. There's a layer of something on the brick to give it its texture; that came off. So I re-applied the J-B weld to the same spot now that it's cleaned off, and it seems to be holding. The close-up shot shows a failed attempt below it; I had tried some other epoxy before and it didn't work.
Actually, when the J-B Weld didn't work the first time, I attempted to drill into the brick so that I can set an anchor for a screw. After about an hour and I'd gotten only maybe 1/4 inch into the brick, I decided that J-B Weld was worth another try.
That might be too big a job for the one bracket and one screw into the post. I might go find another bracket that would allow me to put two screws into the post and add it.
I've discovered that I need a handle on the inside too, since the gate needs a slight lift into the paddle latch to close. I had positioned the latch to support the gate (not just capture it). Perhaps I shouldn't have, but it's done. It has definitely been a learning experience.
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Saturday, June 13, 2009
I was listening to the reading of Matthew this morning as I watered the two trees and fed the critters, thanks to MP3 and MP3 player technology. I was surprised upon hearing what I hadn't noticed before (items in color): Matthew 27: 50-53
(text copied from the USCCB website)
But Jesus cried out again in a loud voice, and gave up his spirit. And behold, the veil of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked, rocks were split, tombs were opened, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised. And coming forth from their tombs after his resurrection, they entered the holy city and appeared to many.
Matthew 28: 1-8
After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, approached, rolled back the stone, and sat upon it. His appearance was like lightning and his clothing was white as snow. The guards were shaken with fear of him and became like dead men. Then the angel said to the women in reply, "Do not be afraid! I know that you are seeking Jesus the crucified. He is not here, for he has been raised just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples, 'He has been raised from the dead, and he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him.' Behold, I have told you." Then they went away quickly from the tomb, fearful yet overjoyed, and ran to announce this to his disciples.
I didn't know the bodies were raised and they walked about the city. I didn't remember that an angel rolled away the stone from the tomb and sat on it and said what's indicated there.
Matthew 27: 50-53
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gate - almost there
The gate turned out ok. It took all afternoon yesterday.
The first photo shows my set up for stabilizing the gate so that I can get the hinges installed.
I still have a wedge in the gate in the second photo because the hinge post has a tendency to lean with the weight of the gate. I've obtained an L-bracket and J-B Weld and attempted to secure the top of the post to the brick. That was last night. The J-B Weld should have cured by noon. If it works out, I'll post a picture to show what I'm talking about. Final touch would be to saw off the extra 4x4, but that can be put off until who-knows-when.
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just checking in
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Hectic times these days at work. And next week I'll have to start (and finish) a part of my work that I reeeeally don't enjoy and which I struggle with.
I purchased a Sandisk Sansa Clip MP3 player this week since they were on sale at Office Depot. I can now listen on-the-go to the MP3 New Testament and such. I also grabbed some downloads from the EWTN website: some Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR; Fr. Mitch Pacwa, S.J.; and Fr. John Corapi, SOLT. I was hoping to get some MP3s from Dr. Scott Hahn's site but the audio repository seems to not be working.
I met with my Dominican liaison last week over dinner at a quiet restaurant. It was planned that way, but aside from us there were maybe two only other tables with people. She gave some info on the going-ons in the Order, discussed some of the other seekers who are interested in joining the Order, and the near-term plans for additional vocational activities. I talked some about my family. She gave me another requirement for me to meet before I can apply for entrance. Oh well. My debt is the mountain I have to move right now, I'm not really concerned with other barriers for the time being. I haven't asked for the full set of requirements for entrance ... it could be that I'm supposed to bring a wheelbarrow of money with me if I am to enter, ya never know. No point in hashing those details now. The rules could all change by the time my debt is paid off. Heck, I could be hit by a beer truck between now and then and everything would be moot.
Tomorrow I will meet with my spiritual adivsor. As usual, I am not at all prepared for that. I suppose I'm not very organized. Tomorrow I also hope to get a haircut, though I'm itching to finish the fence I started. It irritates me that I'm so close to finishing it and yet I can't get to it. I'm also a little anxious that it might turn out rather crappy, i.e. significantly misaligned in one plane or another. At the same time, I've recognized that it is what is, and it will be what it will be.
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Logos bible software
Logos bible software
If you've been looking for software to assist you in your Bible study, they might have what you seek. The link is to their Catholic section for your convenience. So there it is; give it a go. It is an attractive site. Good Luck.
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fence still needs gate
Sunday, June 07, 2009
I worked on building the front fence on one side of the house this weekend. Yesterday I was able to dig out the old middle post and set a new one in its place. I stained new wood and pickets and put those up.
Today I set the post by the house for the gate. I stained new wood and pickets built the new gate. I was hoping to be able to hang the frame and then install the pickets, but the frame wasn't stiff enough without the pickets. So I built the whole gate. Now it weighs a ton. I was trying to figure out how to hang it, but I ran out of daylight. I think what I'll do is make props to stabilize the thing so that I can install the hinges. I need to make sure the hinge pins are perfectly vertical. One good thing: the gate WILL fit in the space between the two posts. I can't tell if it'll end up aligned with the rest of the fence.
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Saturday, June 06, 2009
Whew! I was at a landscaping place at 7:30 a.m. this morning to get gravel. I had to make a judgment call on which gravel I wanted; I ended up with granite gravel. The guy said that is what is commonly used to make the walk paths in parks. I purchased 1/4 of a "yard" for $20 plus tax. Much cheaper than the bagged stuff in the stores! I was armed with an assortment of buckets, some empty kitty litter bags, and a shovel. I mean the bags that the kitty litter comes in. Those bags are tough. Our doggie hasn't destroyed the one bag I let him play with.
An employee (actually, he might have been the owner) comes with a front loader truck (I think that's what it's called), scoops some off the big pile of gravel, and dumps it on the ground for me. I shovel from the small pile into little containers and put the containers in the car. Then I got to the big containers, where they have to be filled while they're in the car because there is no way they can be lifted. The gravel is HEAVY! Then one of the guys came out and shoveled the remainder for me. This was the harder part becuase the shovelful now has to be lifted into the car. The large containers were the two 16-gallon pots that our two trees came in, and a 50-gallon size "contractor" garbage bag.
I was concerned about the weight. From very brief research on the internet, I had estimated that it would be approximately 800 lbs. (assuming a "yard" meant a "cubic yard"). My car is specified to handle a load of 1,1xx lbs. Since I weigh less than 200 lbs. my car should be able to handle the combined load of gravel and myself. But I had not counted on the gravel being a little wet. Fortunately, my car pulled through and I'm very proud of my steed. I did 30 mph through neighborhood streets to get home.
Once home, it was imperative that I unload the car as soon as possible. I do believe the car grunted in relief with each little load I took off. Some two hours later I've cleared the car and moved all that gravel to the backyard. Did I say that the gravel was heavy? The gravel is HEAVY. I'm whipped. The critters have not had their breakfast yet, but they'll have to wait until I get a little rested. Considering that they didn't get their dinner until some time after 1 a.m. last night, they should be just fine.
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eyesight restored?
Friday, June 05, 2009
cornea improved after wearing contacts coated with stem cells ... LINK
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